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Ah Lan name meaning

  • 阿蘭familiar prefix; orchid
Letters
5
Syllables
1
First letter
A
Romanization
Hokkien, Hakka
Character options
1
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters阿蘭
Peak 1950s: 6.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s6.9%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: A

Ah Lan is a Chinese girl's name usually written 阿蘭: the familiar prefix Ah plus 'orchid'.

Chinese characters for Ah Lan

This spelling is common in Hokkien, Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 阿蘭

    familiar prefix; orchid

    Hokkien a lân / Hakka â làn / Cantonese aa3 laan4

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Ah Lan

Ah Lan combines the familiar prefix Ah (阿) with Lan, which usually stands for 蘭 (orchid). 蘭 is read lân in Hokkien, làn in Hakka and laan4 in Cantonese, so the spelling fits all three. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 887 baby girls. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHokkien, Hakka, Cantonese
PartsAh
First letterChinese Names starting with A

Ah Lan in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Girl: 887 · 6.9%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ah Lan as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 阿 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 阿 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 蘭 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 蘭 · mdbg.net · meaning

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